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sketchable

[ skech-uh-buhl ]

adjective

  1. suitable for being sketched.


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Other Words From

  • sketcha·bili·ty noun
  • un·sketcha·ble adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of sketchable1

First recorded in 1860–65; sketch + -able

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Example Sentences

The windows looked out on a paintable series of backyards: on a sketchable huddle of old, stained, leaning wooden houses.

Siena was eminently sketchable, but he had not been industrious.

It was especially sketchable, and "bits" of it were carried away in many an artist's portfolio.

There are some particularly sketchable cottages in this lane, as will be seen by the illustration over-leaf.

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